NFL Films Won Its 100th Sports Emmy

Thanks to its multiple collaborations with HBO and CBS/Showtime, NFL Films and NFL Network combined for four Sports Emmy Awards including three for the prestigious NFL Films.

The multimedia arm of the National Football League is one of the best in-house branches that documents every game of the league and archives them. One of these days, I’d love to visit the headquarters just to see the mountains of film stored. In any event, let’s take a look at the awards NFL Films and NFL Network won in New York last night.

100^TH SPORTS EMMY FOR NFL FILMS

NFL NETWORK WINS FOR “FOOTBALL SEASON NEVER ENDS – RUN” PROMOTIONAL SPOT

HARD KNOCKS WINS FOR OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SERIES

NFL Films and NFL Network combined to win four 2009 Sports Emmy Awards, it was announced last night in New York. 

NFL Films, the most-honored filmmaker in sports, earned three Sports Emmys to bring its total to 100. The 100^th Emmy for NFL Films came as the critically acclaimed Hard Knocks series, which airs on HBO, won its first Emmy in the Outstanding Edited Sports Series – Anthology category. 

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals was also one of two NFL Films winners for Outstanding Post Produced Audio – Sound. Inside the NFL on Showtime also earned a Sports Emmy in the category for “Sounds of the Year.”

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals will encore on NFL Network this summer.

NFL Network won in the Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement – Institutional for its “Football Season Never Ends – Run” spot, which featured Raiders running back Darren McFadden running through the year-round NFL season beginning with the NFL Scouting Combine and progressing through the NFL Draft, training camp, the preseason and the regular season.

(Following is a link to the spot: http://motionographer.com/theater/motion-theory-nfl-run/).

NFL Network has won seven Sports Emmys in its six-year history. 

NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis and is the only television network fully dedicated to the NFL and the sport of football. For more information, log on to www.nfl.com/nflnetwork. NFL.com is the exclusive Internet home of NFL Network. 

Following is a list of the winners:

OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SERIES/ANTHOLOGY

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals (HBO Sports/NFL Films)

OUTSTANDING POST PRODUCED AUDIO/SOUND

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals (HBO Sports/NFL Films)

Inside the NFL: Sounds of the Year (CBS/Showtime/NFL Films)

OUTSTANDING SPORTS PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT – INSTITUTIONAL

2009 Football Season Never Ends – Run (NFL Network/Mering Carson/Motion Theory)

Congratulations to NFL Films and NFL Network for their Sports Emmy Awards.